Babette’s Feast

10.45PM, RADIO 4

A desperate French woman, half-mad with fear, arrives at the door of two Norwegian sisters, with a strange letter in her hand. The woman is given shelter, and the sisters employ her in their austere home as a maid of all work. Then, years later, another letter arrives, and their lives are transformed. Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen’s story all this week.